Software - Watchdog is biting me! feffer777 - 29.09.2006, 19:53 Uhr Titel: Watchdog is biting me!
After a major d-u, I've had connection problems on my LAN, and noticed that Watchdog is one of the processes running. Isn't this a firewall app? I use a hardware firewall and don't want any software firewall processes running, but I don't see how to turn it off, or how it got turned on in the first place. No man page for Watchdog either. Anyone know what's going on here? How do I shut this off, or is it safe to just remove the package?
Thanks,
Ron
ockham23 - 29.09.2006, 20:04 Uhr Titel: RE: Watchdog is biting me!
Ron, watchdog is not a firewall, it just checks periodically whether the system is still "alive and kicking". If watchdog dies, the system will reboot. Your network problems must be caused by something else.
feffer777 - 29.09.2006, 20:36 Uhr Titel: RE: Watchdog is biting me!
ockham23,
Thanks, I realized after I posted that it probably wasn't a firewall. I've been suffering with connection problems since samba 3.0.23, and I'm grasping at straws, as the saying goes.
Ron
ockham23 - 29.09.2006, 20:50 Uhr Titel: RE: Watchdog is biting me!
Ron, if you have problems with samba (and who hasn't?), you can either set up a windows file server or use ssh/fish for simple file sharing. ssh/sftp even works with windows clients; the windows program is called winscp and it's free: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winscp/feffer777 - 30.09.2006, 04:27 Uhr Titel: RE: Watchdog is biting me!
ockham23, Thanks. I have a Mac that wouldn't connect. It's been weird, worked fine with samba before this last upgrade. I could move files, because samba worked from kanotix TO the mac but not the other way around. However, I have database files on kanotix that I needed to access from the mac. I finally did a workaround, so I should be OK. I think there is some sort of bug in the latest samba, at least on debian. There is a report that sounds very similar to my issue. Thanks for the info, though.
Regards,
Ron